Alison McDonald

​Neuro-Architect, The Hopkins Centre: Research for Rehabilitation and Resilience

Biography

Alison McDonald is an architect, neuro-architecture consultant with the BEEhive Brain + Enriched Environments Lab, Research Fellow and Industry Fellow Adjunct with Menzies Health Institute and Cities Research Institute, Griffith University. Alison strives to create change for inclusivity and equity through design of cognitively-useable sustainable built environments. Alison’s academic research, international industry experience as a chartered multi-award-winning Architect and Sustainable Design Consultant, provide a platform for informed change. Her research explores social sustainability and implementation of inclusive architecture, with the goal of creating cognitive enriching environments for all. Alison’s lived experience brings fresh perspective to her professional foundation in design, building comfort, architectural science, sustainable learning environments and Positive Development. She advocates net-Positive Design, believing good design has no limitations when we look beyond settlement conditions. And experiments with art-based creative-work research to inform, provoke, and explore translation between designer, user and cross-disciplinary research; particularly in sustainable architecture, wellbeing and neuroscience.

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